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Making A Bumper or Logo

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OCTOBER 24TH — MAKING A LOGO FOR OUR STOP MOTION VIDEOS!!

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In class laboratory, complete our stop motion videos and create a motion bumper with sound effects to add as the opening bumper, closing bumper, or both….

What is a bumper?

OPENING BUMPER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRvIgnyRIg

ANIMATED OPENING BUMPER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtSdphaOqgs&feature=related

LOWER–THIRD BUMPER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCkwkE-D8As

OPENING AND CLOSING BUMPER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuTiczB-K68&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL2C3AD502F39616DF

What is involved?  —

1. Make or choose an image or logo

— you may create your logos or images in photoshop, or you can find a logo or image from the web.

— consider including alpha channel or transparency to your image or logo… what does that mean?

— I chose this one: http://aux4.iconpedia.net/uploads/988120305.png

— place the image first in your bin, and then in the timeline of final cut pro

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2.  Bring the timage into Final Cut Pro

— we first want to make sure that we select View >> Image & Wireframe in the top tool bar…

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— use the manual key framing technique ( in the Viewer area of Final Cut Pro)  to move the image, scale the image, rotate the image, etc….

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3.  Add sound to your image

— you can find free downloadable sound effects from here:

http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html

http://www.acoustica.com/mp3-audio-mixer/sounds.htm

— now bring your sound image into the final cut bin and place it under the video

— there may be two layers of audio in the timeline why may that be???

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4.  Now we will create text in the viewer…

— First go and select the little A button at the bottom of the viewer…

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— There will be a few different choices for creating  different styles of Text…

— Next go under the Controls Tab Next To Your Bin Tab and you will have the ability to add the words you want to your text…

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— Finally, drag the gray/ outside part of the viewer and pull it onto the timeline…

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— Now you have a text image to use as you wish…

5.  I added a gaussian blur filter from the effects part of the bin…

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— I also key framed the filter so that the title  decreases as I want it show more

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— and lastly I added manual transitions to the files so they look smoother together….